Project MUSE®: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies - Latest Articles
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978066
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At Frontiers, we are continuing to work through tumultuous political times, as people in the United States face loss of livelihoods and deportations, tariffs and trauma. Amid precarity and bad news, we have one good piece of news to share: our editorial collective has expanded! Dr. Marie Sarita Gaytán, associate professor of sociology and gender studies joins us from the University of Utah. Her deep inter- and transdisciplinary expertise and feminist commitment will greatly help our journal keep doing what we have been doing for the last fifty years—publishing cutting edge interdisciplinary feminist and queer scholarship and art, mentoring authors, and creating and sustaining community.Our current issue features
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/64/image/coversmallEditors' Note2025-12-17text/htmlen-USEditors' Note2025-12-172025TWOProject MUSE®69102026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-17Lipstick Lacerators and Loving Justice: The Magical Abolitionist Transfeminism of Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978067
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Most non-Asian people are trained not to see anti-Asian racism because they assume we are the good docile "model minority." We are not taught the long history of American violence against Asian Americans, violence that includes lynchings, mob violence, war, imperialism, forced removal, assault, internment, street harassment, and attacks.For our communities, anti-Asian violence should not start or end in a call for more policing. We stop violence by stopping white supremacy and imperialism including police, the military, and ICE.The week of the Atlanta murders also marked the one-year anniversary of the murder of Breonna Taylor. During the same week, Biden continued deportations to Vietnam, while sanctions continued
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/64/image/coversmallLipstick Lacerators and Loving Justice: The Magical Abolitionist Transfeminism of Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes2025-12-17text/htmlen-USLipstick Lacerators and Loving Justice: The Magical Abolitionist Transfeminism of Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes2025-12-172025TWOProject MUSE®1885722026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-17"Owning" Women: Misogynist Rampage, Declining Rights, and Savage Violence in Global Antifeminist Backlash
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978068
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On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk acquired X, formally known as Twitter, for $44 billion. Following Musk's takeover, Twitter reinstated banned accounts of mostly alt-right pundits and conspiracy theorists pushing fascist, racist, sexist, transphobic, queerphobic, and COVID-19 misinformation agenda.1 A study on misogyny after Musk's acquisition indicated a 69 percent increase in new accounts following known abusive and misogynistic channels. Despite Musk's stance of "freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach [to promote and monetize harmful speech]," the study found that he created a "permissive environment" that emboldened misogynists to expand their networks.2 One such reinstated account was of Andrew Anglin, the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/64/image/coversmall"Owning" Women: Misogynist Rampage, Declining Rights, and Savage Violence in Global Antifeminist Backlash2025-12-17text/htmlen-US"Owning" Women: Misogynist Rampage, Declining Rights, and Savage Violence in Global Antifeminist Backlash2025-12-172025TWOProject MUSE®1809582026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-17Centering Women in Contemporary Gulf Arab Fiction: Jokha Alharthi's Sayyidat al-qamar (Celestial Bodies)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978069
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"Sayyidat al-qamar," or "Ladies of the Moon," reads the title in the original, and the frequently mourned loss in translation fails indeed to convey the evocative tapestry of meanings it retains in Gulf Arabic. At the very least, the English rendition into "Celestial Bodies" delays the gendered immediacy of the referents: the ladies of the moon, those many women whose separate yet intricately interlaced stories punctuate the narrative in this first Omani novel catapulted into global limelight by a Man Booker International.1 The nomination of Omani author Jokha Alharthi for the 2019 award was a high-profile cultural event, nonetheless a surprise in the Arab world. Since Naguib Mahfouz's 1988 Nobel Prize for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/64/image/coversmallCentering Women in Contemporary Gulf Arab Fiction: Jokha Alharthi's Sayyidat al-qamar (Celestial Bodies)2025-12-17text/htmlen-USCentering Women in Contemporary Gulf Arab Fiction: Jokha Alharthi's Sayyidat al-qamar (Celestial Bodies)2025-12-172025TWOProject MUSE®1130462026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-17The Politics of Discourse Among Unequals: An Epistemological Reading of Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978070
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In her 1917 short story "A Jury of Her Peers," Susan Glaspell portrays two groups of characters independently unraveling a murder mystery on an isolated Iowa farm, drawing on a real-life murder she covered as a reporter.1 One group, all male, is on the scene as part of the official investigation; the other group—female, unofficial, and even unintentional, investigators—unexpectedly figures out what happened and decides the fate of certain evidence, impacting the official investigation.Scholars generally explain the women's success by appealing to sex-based traits and tendencies that supposedly advantage them; they consequently downplay differences within each same-sex group. We argue, however, that differences in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/64/image/coversmallThe Politics of Discourse Among Unequals: An Epistemological Reading of Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers"2025-12-17text/htmlen-USThe Politics of Discourse Among Unequals: An Epistemological Reading of Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers"2025-12-172025TWOProject MUSE®1318122026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-17Angelina in the Archives: Tracing Heteropatriarchy and Settler Colonialism in Local Histories of the Pineywoods
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978071
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The name and legend of Angelina echo across the East Texas Pineywoods, occupied Caddo lands. Invoked in local geographies, historical narratives, and art, her life remains simultaneously preserved and obscured within settler imaginaries, a present absence in the forested river valleys where she lived and died. Local historians agree that the woman alternately recorded as "Angélique, "Angelica," and "Angelina" was a Hasinai Caddo woman who became an interlocutor between Caddos and colonizers as French and Spanish empires made competing claims to Caddo homelands at the turn of the eighteenth century.1 Depicted as an arbiter of peace and cultural exchange within settler accounts, Angelina is positioned as a mediator
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/64/image/coversmallAngelina in the Archives: Tracing Heteropatriarchy and Settler Colonialism in Local Histories of the Pineywoods2025-12-17text/htmlen-USAngelina in the Archives: Tracing Heteropatriarchy and Settler Colonialism in Local Histories of the Pineywoods2025-12-172025TWOProject MUSE®1433462026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-17Unspeakable and Unspoken: Gender Inequalities in the Labor Experience of Female Social Scientists in Chile
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978072
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This article discusses the results of a qualitative study carried out in 2023 on the experiences of gender inequality suffered by fifty social scientists (female researchers and/or professors) in their work in universities in Chile. It aims to analyze the inequalities these academics face and establish a typology of the axes in which they are manifested and/or reproduced. International reports indicate two major problems for women in science, namely, gender violence of a verbal and physical-sexual nature in university and/or scientific labor environments and the difficulties female academics face reconciling their work performance with reproductive and family care overload.1 We will explore these aspects in other
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/64/image/coversmallUnspeakable and Unspoken: Gender Inequalities in the Labor Experience of Female Social Scientists in Chile2025-12-17text/htmlen-USUnspeakable and Unspoken: Gender Inequalities in the Labor Experience of Female Social Scientists in Chile2025-12-172025TWOProject MUSE®1260402026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-17Artist Statement
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978073
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My art interrogates how women's sense of self is shaped by memory, trauma, affection, and family dynamics. Using photographs—both casual snapshots and old family album images—as references, I explore these themes within the cultural context of Chinese society and family. Through this practice, I aim to bring personal experiences into the public sphere, raise awareness of women's ambivalence, and find a path to visualize it.Aesthetically, my work is primarily figurative, but I strive to move beyond representation to reveal the inner lives and complex relationships of subjects. I employ a range of media—oil, acrylic, pastels, sand, sponge, and carbon powder—to create rich textures and heterogeneity. By repeatedly
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/64/image/coversmallArtist Statement2025-12-17text/htmlen-USArtist Statement2025-12-172025TWOProject MUSE®55792026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-17